Quotes About Patois

The great breeding people have gone out and multiplied ; colonies in every clime attest our success; French is the patois of Europe; English is the language of the world.

They don't go in for the fancy or exotic, but stick to conventional food like flightless bird embryos, minced organs in intestine skins, slices of hog flesh and burnt ground grass seeds dipped in animal fats; or, as it is known in their patois, egg, sausage, bacon and a fried slice of toast.

My flow follows sometimes what's going on in the hip-hop industry even though I'm speaking Jamaican patois.

Sea Island blacks spoke in the Gullah dialect of their forebears (a blend of African languages that was a distinctive patois).

We knew that they, in their own time, had feared school, just as we did now, feared the arbitrary rules and felt shamed by them, by the new uniforms they couldn't afford, the baffling obsession with quiet, the incessant correcting of their original patois or cockney, the sense that they could never do anything right anyway. A